Kasz216 said:
SamuelRSmith said:
Kasz216 said:
SamuelRSmith said:
Kasz216 said:
You don't get your money back if you lose your political support. Well thats a kick in the pants.
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Well, it's to help prevent small, extremist parties, who wouldn't really be able to get much exteranal funding, from running. If you got your deposit back, anyone could just take out a loan and pay it back, no matter what their views.
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I don't see a problem with that. Why shouldn't everyone get their say?
Personally I like the US way of doing things better. You just need to get a number of signatures saying they'd like you to run.
Not people that would vote for you per say. Just people who are interested in what you have to say.
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Whereas I prefer it the way we do it. It's easy enough to get a bunch of racists to sign a piece of paper saying that they'll vote for the BNP, a smaller proportion of those racists would like to put their cash towards it.
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That system is dispropotionatly disenfranchising towards the poor however.
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Not particularly. After all, the poor are in the greater numbers, and so smaller donations will be in greater numbers (plus huge donations from trade unions). Also, the fact that the poor are in greater numbers means that the party are likely to get the minimum required number of votes to get the deposit back.
If the system did have a huge negative-effect on the poor, we wouldn't have the extensive welfare system that we currently have.
